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Here's a roundup of performances in and around Montgomery County through Wednesday, June 6: Art Exhibit is Great "______scape" ROCKVILLE-For VisArts's latest Kaplan Gallery exhibit, "______scape," artists get creative with filling in the blank.

Danny Goodman's head flew back as he erupted in laughter at the sight of a cardboard car pulling up to the drive-thru at Chick-fil-A. The Salisbury resident couldn't help but chuckle when he saw five college students driving the vehicle Flintstone-style, powering it with their feet.

A Legacy Properties Sotheby 's International Realty inA Maine today announced theA Sotheby's International Realty brand, of which it is a part, grew the office count within its global network by more than 7 percent in 2011, ending the year with more than 600 offices and nearly 12,000 sales associates located in 45 countries and territories ... (more)

Michael Rosman: Amazing Feats of Comedy. Picture a jaw-dropping juggler tossing a dozen cigar boxes, a bowling ball, a chain-saw, or a bunch of bananas while balancing atop a unicycle.

NBA fans will have the opportunity to welcome the next generation of stars as tickets for the 2012 NBA Draft go on sale today.

WASHINGTON -- Thousands of people are expected today for a memorial service to Chuck Brown.

Look out prime rib, burgers may get all the attention now at Bourbon Steak . Forbes Travel Guide said the Four Season's Georgetown restaurant's burger was number one on its top 10 list .

Fifty years after the Georgetown Inn opened to the public, its new owner is planning a multi-year renovation of the 96-room property, located at 1310 Wisconsin Ave., N.W. The hotel will throw a birthday party for itself and friends on June 6. Nayan Patel of Your DC Hotels purchased the hotel in November 2011.

Those were among of the conclusions of a recent Brookings Institution study on walkable neighborhoods in the Washington region.

The U.S. Park Police officer who died on duty in December at Key Bridge was responding to an attempted suicide, according to documents released by the Metropolitan Police on Friday.

Bank of Georgetown has added real estate developer Jim Abdo to its board of directors.

Dawn Price Baby will celebrate its arrival at Reston Town Center with a grand opening party on Saturday.

After a turbulent six months, Heritage India has announced that it is closing its Dupont Circle location as of May 31, with plans to relocate elsewhere in the city.

The James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation of Washington, D.C., announced today that it has selected 58 James Madison Fellows for 2012 in its 21st annual fellowship competition.

A small evolution in neighborhood history happened quietly last week when Stachowski's installed its own sign at the corner of 28th and P Streets, removing the last traces of Griffin Market.

For 50 years, the 1789 restaurant has been presenting fine food to its Georgetown neighborhood.

Monday's ceremonies notwithstanding, May 30th is the day officially set aside as Memorial Day, and the Murrells Inlet American Legion has planned its ceremony for that day.

At a time when our foreign policy is in the hands of the feckless, delusional, and incompetent, it is bracing to have Peter Collier'sA fascinating biography of Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ronald Reagan's smart, no-nonsense, straight-talking ambassador to the U.N. Collier, along with his sometime co-author David Horowitz, is the Plutarch of American ... (more)

William Peter Blatty, author of the epic novel, The Exorcist , has had it with Georgetown University, his alma mater, according to FoxNews.com . He will file a canon law suit both with the Archdiocese of Washington and with the Vatican in an effort to have Georgetown's "Catholic" identity stripped from its university title.

A On urban density, the influential Jane Jacobs purports that vital city life comes with densities high enough to stimulate maximum potential diversity of a district.